If you want to help translating ~friendica now is the best time to do so, as we are heading towards the next release

The translations are done at Transifex and all you need is a browser and some spare time. Just create an account (or use your existing one) and join a language team. The most important file to translate is the called messages.po. For alphabetical reasons it is the last file in the file list of the language you want to work on.

Click on that entry and a dialog will show up. There select the Translate button. Now you are in the translation editor that Transifex provides.

In the upper menu click on the Untranslated button, and the editor will filter out all the strings that are already translated.

Now you can scroll through the untranslated strings and select the one you want to translate. Type your translation into the text field saying "Type your translation here" and hit the safe button when ready. Thank your very much!

But don't hesitate and translate one or two more strings, now that you have that editor open

You don't have to deal with git, github and pull requests at all. We will take care about that so that your work will be included in the upcoming release.

Teenage me: So, how’s it like to be grown-up?Grown-up me: Remember the anxiety you feel just before a test that dissipate after you take it?Teenage me: Sure?Grown-up me: It’s like this, but all the time, and you don’t know why, and it never dissipates.

I sometimes instruct my teenage self to recall the time when it felt free of worry. The feeling of a seemingly endless summer holiday... At this point, my adult self usually kicks in and tries to rationalise that all feelings --regardless whether positive or negative-- are momentarily. The subsequently emerging debate always turns into either semi-staged hilarity or adoration of the act of acknowledging our limitations.

The thing is I've never been nostalgic because until recently each new day was better than the previous one, but this has recently changed and I find myself feeling longing for varyingly distant pasts.

I felt like this many times before, especially during difficult or stressful times.

More recently, I longed for a particular time in my life which I thought was an easier time. But than I actually remembered that during that distant time I also longed for the past which I then had perceived as less difficult.

It made me wary of longing for the past. I think it's our condition as humans that we selectively remember things and construe our pasts in ways that are easier to deal with.

I was weary of being nostalgic even before I first felt it. Still, I couldn't help but imagining what my life would be today had I taken a different way at crucial points in my past. Alas, I'm way too self-conscious to realize that I couldn't have done it any different way.

I have the feeling this game is going to stay on my virtual shelf for a while, but I can't help it, I'm a sucker for Dwarf Fortress-like games and pixel art, anyway I backed Starmancer on @LogicalDash suggestion.

I'm sorry, I don't subscribe to the virgin humor, as it is directly part of toxic masculinity culture. There's nothing wrong with not having had sex yet, and it most definitely isn't owed to men by women.

I'm sorry. People who don't know me of course also couldn't know that i did this bad joke from the position of being one of these extreme nerds. I had my first kiss in my twenties and in this age posing for this photo would have been the most 'sexual' adventure of my life. And many if not most of the young programmers in the company i was working back then have been in a similar situation.

Maybe times changed or it's different in other countries but that was my own experience in the 90s in Germany.

However you're right: There are subjects where it's better not to make fun about.

Maybe he was the only one to leave the company and the at the very first day at the new place, his wallet (with all his last big paycheck) was stolen. We can clearly see her reach for his pocket there..Stuart, Stuart.. you should had keep your job..

I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

This happens a lot on Twitter. Someone says something someone else thinks is stupid. Instead of engaging directly with the author in the replies, they will lampoon the tweet in their own timeline in a quote tweet which is destined to their followers, not the original author. I becomes a performance because the quote-tweet appears to their followers (supposedly like-minded) while a reply appears mainly to the author and its followers (supposedly favorable to the author).

Yes, I think that Diaspora and the other decentralized social platforms don't really have enough popularity for such toxic behaviors to be really impactful, but Mastodon just might be, hence the renewed commitment by Gargron not to implement quote toots.

I've seen it here also. Specially the alt-right people. They reshare posts only to bash them within their circle of like-minded followers.At the same time, I've noticed reasonable people here on diaspora have a adopted a very practical technique: Ignore the trolls... So far I see it working. Some time ago, with the advent of the alt-right, the trolling and shitposting was becoming an issue... Eventually everyone stopped engaging with the trolls and nowadays they seem to be confined to their own circles.

this doesn't work on diaspora because there's no quoting, so people reshare the original post instead and add their comments to the reshare - but the original post's author receives notifications for comments to reshares.

I have now seen derivative work based on Ready Player One and i don't know if I feel boundless amazement or crushing despair.

For the people who don't know Ready Player One yet, it's a toxic and uninspired novel borrowing its plot from Snow Crash and dropping tons of unwarranted 80's pop culture references in every single page. In other words, the epitome of derivative work.

I don't understand how people can create derivative work out of derivative work, but apparently it's possible.

a fun thing is how there are thousands of tweets from Early Twitter of people saying "nothing whats up" and "nothing whos this" etc because they thought they were chatting with the compose tweet box that asked "What's happening?" pic.twitter.com/vJMxNwMySR

I've seen jokes mocking insensitive behavior from individuals or corporations on #InternationalWomensDay. I'm tempted to say they are worse than the behavior they mock because they still propagate bad behavior examples without criticizing them seriously.

I like this image because it shows definite signs of wear, meaning space travel is leaving the realm of science-fiction with its flawless spacecrafts depictions, and entering the realm of nitty-gritty day-to-day banality.

Below is a list of known Furby bugs and glitches. Furby 1998 Sometimes picks up or messes with radio frequencies, When batteries run low, your Furby may freeze up while saying a sentence, resulting in garbled playback of the sentence until batteries are replaced. This is because the lines of code in Furby's circuit board aren't completely filled in with such little power from the batteries, resulting in the garbled speech., Some Furbys can re-start without the reset button being pushed. On...